So while my pretty little Lady Haydie was back in summer heat of Texas, celebrating his old-as-shit birthday without me, I was enjoying the crisp air of Skagway, Alaska. At least I planned ahead and had already sent his present to him before I left, and pre-posted a Happy Birthday blog for him. Lawd, I am so good!
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The ‘Early’ Beginning of Our Journey
Remember The Night We Hijacked a Piano Bar?
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I woke up bright and early, once again, eager to look at my window and see what view I was blessed with that day.
SonOfA… What the hell is that? Did pirates take over the ship during the night? I knew this would happen…
That’s the first thing I saw when I looked out my window and it wasn’t until I saw the bigger picture that I was able to calm down. I don’t know what any of the paintings mean, but apparently you’re not cool in Skagway if you don’t represent graffiti-style on the mountains.
Skagway is a quaint little town with not too much to do as a tourist if you don’t take the 4-hour train ride, so we were left to our own ideas for entertainment.
The town of Skagway isn’t but about half a mile or so from where we docked, so we enjoyed a leisurely stroll. In the rain, of course. It was during this time, we noticed that Danette, Kay and I all had the same shoes on. How cheesy are we?!?!
Once we hit the populated area {and I use the term populated loosely,} we noticed a streetcar tour we could have taken, but we still chose to find our own sources of entertainment. I mean, there were only like 4 streets in the town, I don’t really think we needed a streetcar to take us on a tour. However, it was a super cool looking vehicle.
On our own adventure, our first stop was of course the shops. Same stuff, new town. Except, we were able to find a few little gems.
We stopped for a coffee and continued perusing the streets of Skagway. It was a quiet town, and I have to admit, it was nice to take a break from all the rushing around and just take my time to not really do anything.
However, I wouldn’t have complained if I had an awesome mountain camping adventure planned with one of these bad boys! As soon as I saw these, I was no longer happy with my lackadaisical day, and was suddenly jealous.
But no worries, we soon picked up speed and headed over to the Klondike Gold Dredge to pan for some gold.
Suddenly I feel like singing.
I wanna know where da gold at. Gimme da gold. I want da gold!
We were given a pan of dirt and had to complete the act of proper sifting in order to separate the gold from the sand. It was really more frustrating than anything else.
But at the end, I found da gold! See that eensy teensy itty bitty titty tiny bit at the bottom? Dat’s my gold, fool.
We collected it and weighed it, and I think I panned like ten dollars and some change worth of gold. I’ve even got a certificate to prove it. However, Danette was the winner winner chicken dinner with over twenty-three dollars worth of gold. High roller!
All that work panning for gold created a large appetite the bellies, so we headed on over to the recommended Skagway Fish Company for some more chowder and of course….beer! We also played a trivia game with the beer coasters, but that will be it’s own post.
We were due back to the boat around late afternoon, so after eating we decided to stroll on back. We boarded the ship and set sail once again.
Another evening spent watching the amazing world pass us by.
It was a nice, peaceful day. Nothing too exciting, but a pleasant day spent in a place most people don’t ever get to see.
However, walking back to our rooms for the night, we did get to enjoy a good laugh. The photographers on the boat take tons of pictures with the most-heinous props and backgrounds. Then they print ALL of them out and put them on display, you know, just in case you want to buy them. {Or steal $4000 worth of them, Indian Ocean.} We first started picking out pictures of strangers and sharing a giggle…
…and then….
Oh.Holy.Effing.Shit.
A sudden flashback to the night we got real real drunk. You know, that night we hijacked the piano bar? Apparently, we also may have posed for pictures…
Seeing that was all I needed as the perfect nightcap. Goodnight all. See you tomorrow in Sitka.
1 comment:
those are some seriously treasured photos:)
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